Established in 1949, National Taipei University (NTPU) was preceded by Taiwan Provincial College of Public Administration, Administrative Extension Program, Taiwan Provincial College of Law and Business, and College of Law and Business, Taiwan Provincial Chung-Hsin University. In 2000, the institution made the transition into becoming the National Taipei University.
Facing the rapid changes in the world and the competitive talents, we continue to advance toward “R&D-based teaching” and “practical application research”, and pursues new ideas of innovative research and development, driving practical innovation teaching and applying innovative teaching, so that students can learn in the learning process.
There are seven colleges at the university, namely the College of Law, College of Business, College of Public Affairs, College of Social Sciences, College of Humanities, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and International College of Sustainability Innovations, total eighteen departments, twenty-six master programs, nine doctoral programs, ten master’s in-service special programs and nine extension education programs.
Besides, we have Center for General Education, Center for Teacher Education and five school-level research centers including Center for Global Change and Sustainability Science, Public Finance and Finance Research Center, Center for Haishan Research, Research Center on Big Data and Smart City and Research Center for Asia and Pan Pacific Region.
Over the past few decades, the NTPU has traditionally played a significant and pivotal role in educating and developing the mid- and high-level talents in the areas of law, business, public administration, as well as social sciences. To date, several hundred thousand NTPU alumni have established themselves in a large number and wide range of important and significant positions both in the public sector and the private sector of the country.
